How the poet difference between mortal and immortal in ozymandias?
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'Ozymandias' is a sonnet written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1818. The poet recalls meeting a traveller 'from an antique land' who tells him about a broken statue with its trunk-less legs buried in the sand the head thrown a little away in the desert. The traveller tells the poet that the expression of the face was arrogant and cold eventhough it was a lifeless object.
Difference between mortal and immortal:
a) The poem brings out the thought that man lives his life arrogantly thinking that he is going to be immortal. But he says nothing remains with the passage of time. For example the king whose statue it was, once stood proudly but the king himself is no more. What remains is his shattered pride and power which is in the form of the broken statue. But memories of what he had done would remain immortal and the successive generations would remember him as a proud king.
b) The poem also brings out the idea that people's memories will not remain even if their statues are made because with the passage of time, monuments are destroyed and memories fade.
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